Joining Sun — I saw my first Sun workstation about 15 years ago, in 1992. I was a business student at Purdue University, and a childhood love for computers had just been reawakened. I was spending countless hours in the basement of the Math building, basking in the green phosphorescent glow …

Report: U.S. most prolific source of online attacks — U.S. networks pumped out the highest percentage of attacks during the second half of last year, with China running a distant second, according to a report released Monday by security firm Symantec. — The U.S. accounted for 31 percent …

How Google Blog Search Ranks Results — Unlike most blog search engines, Google Blog Search ranks the results by relevancy. You can change that by clicking on "sort by date", but the default option is useful if you want to find the most significant blog posts about a topic. But how does Google rank blog posts?

The Coming Apollo vs. Firefox Battle — Adobe announced the public alpha of its Apollo development framework that allows developers to build cross-platform hybrid web/desktop applications using Flash and Ajax. The tech blogosphere responded mostly positively, looking forward to the era …

Coriander launch: second step — Here it is, the long awaited Netvibes coriander release. — Firstly, thanks for the incredible feedback for the new features we introduced during the first step of the Coriander launch, when we discussed the release of the universal widget API.

Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services — Today's Web has terabytes of information available to humans, but hidden from computers. It is a paradox that information is stuck inside HTML pages, formatted in esoteric ways that are difficult for machines to process.

Researchers Track Down a Plague of Fake Web Pages — Tens of thousands of junk Web pages, created only to lure search-engine users to advertisements, are proliferating like billboards strung along freeways. Now Microsoft researchers say they have traced the companies and techniques behind them.

Interview with Matt Mullenweg — Matt Mullenweg is the founder of the open-source blogging software Wordpress. In 2005, he founded Automattic, the company behind Wordpress.com and Akismet. Visit his blog here. — What is your personal and educational background?

Why Apple Should Acquire Adobe — Honest to god, if there are two companies that better make "a couple" than Adobe and Apple I sure can't think of them. Here's three reasons why Apple should acquire Adobe: — 1) Photoshop. The entire family of products defines a category that defines the Mac platform.

Google 'admits to phone project' — Google is working on a basic mobile phone to bring online advertising expertise into the handheld market — Google is working on a basic mobile phone to extend its dominance in internet advertising to handheld devices, according to analysts.